Urban Planning & Development Books


Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age Best Price: $27.00 I am currently using this as a textbook for one of my classes, and a general consensus among the...	Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture Best Price: $11.98 Beautiful, haunting black and white photographs, I just love this book, I could not put it down....	Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography (2nd Edition) Best Price: $78.99 Book was in good condition, more or less as reflected in the price. However, it took a week and...	Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities Best Price: $17.61 As a cofounder of an aspiring ecovillage I've found this book to be uniquely invaluable to...	Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning Best Price: $24.74 Quick read if you want to avoid digging through peer-review journals to learn the same principles.



Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities Best Price: $31.47 This book provides an excellent overview of the science linking sprawl and public health that...	The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development Best Price: $28.70 Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized...	Public Places - Urban Spaces Best Price: $32.06 This book is very useful to understand the theory,design approach and planning schemes and...	History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolution Best Price: $73.09 My professor introduced this book to us as the textbook for a core couse when I was reading for...	Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier Best Price: $25.01 Although an interesting subject matter, the author does an amazing job using the narrative of...



Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier Best Price: $25.01 Although an interesting subject matter, the author does an amazing job using the narrative of...	The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History Best Price: $21.81 When I ordered this book I'd already knew that it's good, but it surprised me! It is different...	Money Jungle: Imagining the New Times Square Best Price: $16.47 Chesluk's accessible, engaging writing, paired with Hopp's photography, give the reader a...	Performance Measurement: Getting Results Best Price: $34.50 Long before "reinventing government" came into vogue, the Urban Institute pioneered...	A Prayer for the City Best Price: $5.00 Few modern writers can put forth such heavy-weight classic books as Bissinger's FRIDAY NIGHT...

Readings in Urban Theory Best Price: $46.57 The reading was comprehendable, easy to process, easy to write an essay on, citing this book. I ...	The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking Best Price: $12.03 Written by Jay Walljasper, a Senior Fellow of the Project for Public Spaces, The Great...	Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago Best Price: $14.99 Perhaps a little to dry for someone not totally engaged in the subject matter, but overall this...	Urban Problems in Sociological Perspective, 4/E Best Price: $21.98 The latest edition of this well-regarded text continues the tradition of excellence established...	The Practice of Local Government Planning (Municipal Management Series) Best Price: $157.49

The Practice of Local Government Planning (Municipal Management Series) Best Price: $157.49	Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities Best Price: $36.00 Timothy Beateley did an excellent job describing European cities and their sustainability...	The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Readers) Best Price: $47.93 The Urban Design Reader brings together some of the most influential writing on the historical...	Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning Best Price: $17.92 College-level collections strong in urban planning and land use issues need this collection,...	American Urban Politics in a Global Age: The Reader (5th Edition) Best Price: $60.00

From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (Critical America Series) Best Price: $18.90 Anyone interested in community organizing, legal advocacy on behalf of community groups, and...	Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living Best Price: $8.00 Ready, Set, Green: Eight weeks to Modern Eco-Living by two experts at Treehugger.com, Graham...	Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture Best Price: $34.95 I work at the publisher for this book. We have been trying to get Amazon to correct the...	The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes Best Price: $21.43 Once I started reading this book I could not put it aside for long. Perhaps this is because so...	Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador's Journey Through the Middle East Best Price: $17.16 When Edward P. Djerejian arrived in Beirut for his first Foreign Service assignment, the city...

Financing and Acquiring Park and Recreation Resources Best Price: $37.09 This book is much improved over the old Howard/Crompton or Deppe texts. It is very apparent to...	Planning and Installing Photovoltaic Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers (Planning and Installing Series) Best Price: $131.40 Growth in photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing worldwide continues to increase. In parallel,...	The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions) Best Price: $6.79 I liked the book. As someone who recently moved to Chicago, I have a lot to learn about the...	There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up Best Price: $21.94 When a young brother paints a picture about the past, will anyone one see it? Dr. Freeman is a...	Urban Transportation Planning Best Price: $141.55 Urban Transportation Planning is well written and well organized. Complicated modeling...

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It Best Price: $8.71 This Book goes far to explaining why there seems to be a lack of a sense of community among too...	Paris, Capital of Modernity Best Price: $28.52 David Harvey, the famous social geographer, is not particularly known for his work on cultural...	The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention Best Price: $13.11 Orr's book is a fantastic illustration of the current state of the world in terms of the...	Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action Best Price: $7.00 Despite America's revolutionary beginnings, we tend to marginalize the radical. From the...	Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens Best Price: $31.50 This is an interesting and articulate book for both the specialist and the general reader who...

Urban Transportation Planning Best Price: $141.55 Urban Transportation Planning is well written and well organized. Complicated modeling...	Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It Best Price: $8.71 This Book goes far to explaining why there seems to be a lack of a sense of community among too...	The Nature of Design: Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention Best Price: $13.11 Orr's book is a fantastic illustration of the current state of the world in terms of the...	Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action Best Price: $7.00 Despite America's revolutionary beginnings, we tend to marginalize the radical. From the...	The Urban Revolution Best Price: $17.84 Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained...

Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens Best Price: $31.50 This is an interesting and articulate book for both the specialist and the general reader who...	Paris, Capital of Modernity Best Price: $28.52 David Harvey, the famous social geographer, is not particularly known for his work on cultural...	Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis Best Price: $13.57 It is a great survey book of some amazing cities. I tend to agree with what has been written. ...	Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities Best Price: $35.31 I like this book because it suggests ways to make our communities better. I really like books...	Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications, And Cases Best Price: $25.70

Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications, And Cases Best Price: $25.70	Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are Best Price: $18.95 For some people, their lawn is a source of pride, and for others, caring for their lawn is a...	Strategies of Community Intervention: Macro Practice Best Price: $75.00 This volume takes a broad view of community organization, viewing it as a rich and diverse field...	Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (James a Johnson Metro) Best Price: $17.90 Co-director of the Metropolitan Institute Robert E. Lang and former deputy director of the...	Transforming the City: Community Organizing the the Challenge of Political Change (Studies in Government and Public Policy) Best Price: $17.95 As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community...

New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape Best Price: $19.50 New Orleans is an "inevitable city on an impossible site" is what Pierce Lewis said...	Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times (Main Trends of the Modern World) Best Price: $22.50 The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems...	The Community in Rural America (Classic studies in rural sociology) Best Price: $14.95 Ken Wilkinson's classic study of cummunity in rural America is first a synthesis of the dominant...	Cities For A Small Planet (An Icon Edition) Best Price: $13.61 There's probably a great truth in the fact that the last 50 years of planning have enrich few...	City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (5th Edition) Best Price: $22.00 The description of this product was on target, and the book came in very good condition. Hardly...

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